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100 Best Christmas Poems for Children by Roger McGough
Category: Education
From traditional verses by Christina Rossetti and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to modern classics by Carol Ann Duffy, Steve Turner and Benjamin Zephaniah, this dazzling anthology of Christmas poems will delight children and adults of all ages. All the wonders of the season are captured in 100 Best Christm ...Show more
100 Best Poems for Children by Roger McGough
Category: Children's Classics
A collection of the very best poems for children, edited by Roger McGough A wonderful collection of contemporary and classic poems chosen by children from schools around the UK. Roger McGough made the final selection and wrote the introduction. Roger McGough was born in Liverpool and educated at the U ...Show more
An Imaginary Menagerie by Roger McGough
Category: Children's Books
From the anaconda in a Honda (don't ask him for a ride, you might end up inside), to the zonk (good for nothing and very rude), from the useful catapillow and the reliable teapet to he newt who plays the flute, and the wordfish - who's a swordfish in a state of undress, this is an A-Z of animal poems wi ...Show more
An Imaginary Menagerie by Roger McGough
Category: Gift
A new edition of the classic Roger McGough collection of animal verse, with the author's own illustrations. Ever seean anacondadrive through townon a brand new Honda?Don't ask himfor a ride.You might end upinside.From the Allivator to the Zonk, here are seventy-two gloriously witty poems that young rea ...Show more
Collected Poems: Roger McGough by Roger McGough
Category: Politics
'Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection 'charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poet's winning wit, accessibility and abiding readability' - Independent 'Time has confirm ...Show more
Crocodile Tears by Roger McGough
Category: Board Books
A wonderfully zany tale from the inimitable pen of Roger McGough, about a crocodile who comes to London - and his experiences. The crocodile said to the chimpanzee, "Chimpanzee, I want to be free. The jungle jangle's not for me." Bored with jungle life, and deciding 'a croc's gotta do what a croc's ...Show more
Dotty Inventions by Roger McGough
Category: Picture Books
Eccentric inventor Professor Dorothy Dabble sets off to London with Digby her pet robot, to enter a competition for the best invention. On the way, they discover that the parachute was invented by Blanchard and his parachuting dog; that frisbees were created when workers at the Frisbie Baking Company th ...Show more
Dotty Inventions : And Some Real Ones Too by Roger McGough
Category: Picture Books
Find out about how everyday things were invented, in this mix of fantasy and science! Eccentric inventor Professor Dorothy Dabble sets off to London with Digby her pet robot, to enter a competition for the best invention. On the way, they discover lots of amazing stories about the invention of everyday ...Show more
I Never Liked Wednesdays by Roger McGough
Category: Education | Series: 4u2read
Laugh-out-loud adventures of childhood high jinks and rascality. Midge and his friend are always getting up to all sorts of mischief. They live in Liverpool, but have grand ideas of running away to sea - but no one believes that they could manage such a courageous feat! Well, they'll show them. But when ...Show more
If Only We Had a Helicopter by Roger McGough
Category: Young Adult | Series: 4u2read
High-powered imaginations meet adventure in this celebration of childhood mischief...
Lucky by Roger McGough
Category: Children's Fiction
I'm older than my eldest son But younger than my mother One ear has an eagle tattooed on Skull and crossbones on the other What am I? Solve riddles, find out how to please a weasel, and discover what happened to the boy called Lucky!. This brilliant collection is full of wit, wordplay and wisdom from Ro ...Show more
Money-Go-Round by Roger McGough
Category: Picture Books
A witty and mischievous tale inspired by The Wind in the Willows, from renowned poet Roger McGough. Mr Toad has a shiny gold coin. He gives it to Miss Mole to pay for a room in her hotel. Now Miss Mole can pay Sam Stoat for painting the hotel, and Sam Stoat can pay back Mr Badger ... until the coin mig ...Show more